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🌸👹loops, lovesong & ceremony 🎸nae santos🇵🇭🌊
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11/17 stagedive @triskelionarts

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💪ATTN: HARD BODIES, gushes PROTEIN SUPERSET [a performance, a multimedia installation, a workout routine] hits July 31, 2026 at @supr_omen presented by DRIFT. tix🔗in bio

SUPR OMEN welcomes gushes on July 31 as part of DRIFT, a monthly program showcasing live-works by artists who push to the edge of the edge.

gushes: PROTEIN is live techno dance-punk for the new flesh, by Jennae Santos (guitar, electronics, vocals) and Ricky Petraglia (electronic drum, hardware). In a song cycle culling millennial futurist combat & underground club scenes—read: soundtracks to The Matrix, Hackers, and Blade—the duo satirizes the internet-fed hyper-masc self/body-image with thick riffs, breakbeats, and hard sequencing. The club is the gym is church. Cached by ethereal drones, our story begins in the Fruitger Aero paradise of a precolonial internet.

While PROTEIN is a vehement departure from gushes’ chamber prog opus, Delicious Collision (2025), the project's signature bombast rings true to new form and new mythos. Clad in suits and chains, gushes: PROTEIN bot-baits the dance floor with fitness and wellness trends, ketosis as a religion, macro-goal romanticism, and self-engine optimization. The body keeps Scroll. by @gushes___

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The time has come. gushes' debut LP, Delicious Collision, is NOW on PTP x Switch Hit Records

👁️"Stick Figures" Music Video Premiere on @foxy.digitalis

available on~
Streaming via @switchhitrecords
Digital Download via @ptp.vision
Limited Run Vinyl via @gushes___
all 🔗s in bio

1st photo by @stevemangumphoto

ALBUM CREDITS

songwriting by Jennae Santos
produced & arranged by Jennae Santos & Chris Connors @concrete.sound

Jennae Santos - guitars, lead vocals
Ricky Petraglia @rickypetraglia - drums & percussion on Game One, CUT, Yo banana boY
David Palazola @dpalazola - drums on Stick Figures, Mmmh, Passion Play, percussion on Game One
Eva Lawitts @stimmermandotgov - bass
Gabriel Zucker @gabriel.zucker - synths & keyboards
Johnny Butler @johnnybutlermusic - baritone saxophone, alto saxophone, electronics
Domenica Fossati @dommitron - flute, alto flute
Katie Jacoby @katiejacoby - violin
Marta Bagratuni @martabagratuni - cello
Herma Ruiz & Vincent Ruiz - additional vocals on Game One
Micaela Tobin @white_boy_scream & Sondra Sun-Odeon @sondrasunodeon - additional vocals on CUT
Danny Siuba @daniel_the_most - additional vocals on Stick Figures
Ethan Woods @mr.e.s.woods & Alice Tolan-Mee @_alice_tm_ - additional vocals on Mmmh
Matt Evans @matt_evans_online - triangle, crotales on Yo banana boY

Carlos Hernandez @carlostruly @gravesendrecordings - engineer
Chris Connors - engineer
Ryan Santos Phillips @thesantosconnection @luxperpetuanyc - mixer
Sarah Register @sarahregister - mastering engineer

Cover Photography by Matt Evans
Album Cover Artwork, Design, Layout by Jennae Santos
Vinyl Insert Artwork by Emmalee Johnson-Kao @smirnoff1000

'Stick Figures' MUSIC VIDEO CREDITS

Concept, direction, production, camera, edit by Jennae Santos
Performance & conception by Kris Seto @setoburrito & Che'Li @cialikethey
Filmed on location at @mosquitopointroadhouse, @starroutefarm, & Kaaterskill Falls
Special Thanks to @mujer.rana @steffiepuff @kendra_mckinley @josephimhauser.studio @lizibarra @matt_evans_online @thesantosconnection
In loving, raging memory of @eo.biont by @gushes___

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"Stick Figures" (official music video) by gushes, 2025

Gagged and screaming from the umbilical tongue, “Stick Figures” is a nonbinary allegory— a final dance with a version of self who must die in order to live closer to liberation. Bound and extended by the fabrics of psychic gristle, the video moves through the ritual schism of birth, a glamorous yet indignant intervention between Mother
Trickster and Baby Beast, and then floral devastation-release at the peak of a waterfall.

With music, direction, cinematography, & editing by Filipinx interdisciplinary artist, Jennae Santos (aka gushes), the song’s prickling, sludging sound scores the salt of seduction on the lunge of flight.

The video was filmed on location at @mosquitopointroadhouse and @starroutefarm —sites that foster radical healing and growth for queer communities in the Catskills. An exercise in Kapwa– a concept in Indigenous Filipino psychology that refers to seeing oneself in the other, the music video illuminates the somatic interdependence, erotic wisdom, and diasporic resilience of queer Asian Americana in relationship to land. Bodies are one, vibrating to the storied textures of land and bursting flowers in unbound expressions of liberation.

last year, 2 fronds @setoburrito @cialikethey who i now call fam came into my life in the wake of shared grief. we self-directed a vulnerable process while cohabitating for a week. this work is the result of our initial intersection, held with great trust & intimacy🤎 taken in Catskill Mountains by @gushes___

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GUSHES
PROTEIN SUPER SET
Friday July 31
Doors at 7

A SUPR OMEN//DRIFT presentation

TIX in BIO

Video shot and edited by @kareenaso_ by @gushes___

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3 months ago

REPIXELATING YR AMINO ACIDS 🥩 gushes PROTEIN is the anthem for yr MACROGOALS 💪

gushes PROTEIN SUPERSET
JULY 31 @supr_omen
grip tix🔗 in bio taken in Bushwick, Brooklyn by @gushes___

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💪ATTN: HARD BODIES, gushes PROTEIN SUPERSET [a performance, a multimedia installation, a workout routine] hits July 31, 2026 at @supr_omen presented by DRIFT. tix🔗in bio

SUPR OMEN welcomes gushes on July 31 as part of DRIFT, a monthly program showcasing live-works by artists who push to the edge of the edge.

gushes: PROTEIN is live techno dance-punk for the new flesh, by Jennae Santos (guitar, electronics, vocals) and Ricky Petraglia (electronic drum, hardware). In a song cycle culling millennial futurist combat & underground club scenes—read: soundtracks to The Matrix, Hackers, and Blade—the duo satirizes the internet-fed hyper-masc self/body-image with thick riffs, breakbeats, and hard sequencing. The club is the gym is church. Cached by ethereal drones, our story begins in the Fruitger Aero paradise of a precolonial internet.

While PROTEIN is a vehement departure from gushes’ chamber prog opus, Delicious Collision (2025), the project's signature bombast rings true to new form and new mythos. Clad in suits and chains, gushes: PROTEIN bot-baits the dance floor with fitness and wellness trends, ketosis as a religion, macro-goal romanticism, and self-engine optimization. The body keeps Scroll. taken in Bushwick, Brooklyn by @gushes___

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3 months ago

@gushes___

spellbound

at @officeoursonknox by @gushes___

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5 months ago

STONE EATER BTS 🪨😝🥁🎥 a GUSH

could not have conceived of or realized this video without Nae’s (@gushes___ ) incredible vision and dedication !!!! they went so freaking hard on it and i’m so freaking proud !!!! Nae’s ability to coax and capture an ecstatic feral expression has been extremely inspiring to me and I was stoked to ask them to do this video when I realized this track went hard enough to go there 😝

we shot the drumming bits in September at @otionfrontstudio in basically one grueling 12 hour day for a 2-person shoot (hilarious for a 2 minute video). this is where the matrix idea started and we just captured a ton of material to sculpt from in the edit.

in December we traveled to Ireland for @ambleofficial. online research led us to Giants Causeway in Northern Ireland, and @liam_watts_music suggested the Burren and Mullaghmore, in the west. We literally did this in two insane back to back days, 🚊training to Northern Ireland, and shooting during a 20 minute bus tour stop at Giants Causeway LOL. back to Dublin that night, and the next day took a bus to Galway, rented a car and drove to Mullaghmore to find a freakin rainbow 🌈 NO ONE around. very very special. Nae was extremely ill all the while, and miraculously powered through to get all these gorgeous 360cam shots in the Irish stonescape.

last month we dug into the edit and Nae went off with an extremely detailed edit and then proceeded to color the whole thing to get it in full matrix mode.

from @gushes___
vast natural expanses inspire me, along with the most thrashy matt track ive ever heard— a mode of bombast i super relate to.
while looping short segments in the edit, i started to hear worming voices cackling from matt’s drumming. it was a maddening treat to work on this frenetic, subliminally-tongued beast. the body, the brain, the heart is always a’drum.

GO WATCH IT AGAIN ITS ONLY 2 MINUTES !!!!! so freaking proud of this one and grateful for my love @gushes___ making it a reality 🥹 by @gushes___

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Happy feral spring! This show at @officeoursonknox is one we highly recommend being at ft. @gushes___ (nyc), @planetteautomatic, @medukha.mp3, and @rosemeatmusic. We will dance, rock, laugh, cry, and sweat together on a Sunday. May 10th. Doors 630, show 7. See you here! taken in Germantown, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania by @gushes___

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good morning earthworms !! 2 new tracks (and vids) from 𝔻𝕒𝕪𝕕𝕣𝕖𝕒𝕞 𝕆𝕓𝕤𝕖𝕣𝕧𝕒𝕥𝕠𝕣𝕪 to melt your brain: “𝙎𝙩𝙤𝙣𝙚 𝙀𝙖𝙩𝙚𝙧” & “𝑺𝒘𝒐𝒓𝒅 𝒐𝒇 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑺𝒖𝒏”

like the everyday balancing of tragedy and comedy, these two tracks represent the light and dark poles of the album. Stone Eater, a dark chaotic blast that cuts through an anxious malaise with visceral hunks of free drumming. Sword of the Sun, a sundrenched beachside bop featuring the glimmering trumpet playing of Chris Ryan Williams (@chris_ryanwilliams ).

Stone Eater’s music video (directed, shot, edited, and colored by @gushes___ ) is a densely strobed, tongue out excavation of internalized anxieties. we shot it in the surreal stonescapes of Ireland, and Nae stitched together this incredible hyper-cut Matrix-coded micro-narrative with craggy fish-eye landscapes, in-studio drum performances, and spit-laced subliminal imagery !!! chaotic trickster boy-band stoked-ness !!! i cannot contain my excitement for this vid lol !!!

Sword of the Sun’s music video (directed, shot, edited, and colored moi) is a brightly-hued wanna-be video-synth world made from color distorted overlays of iphone videos of the sun’s reflection on water :’)

as always huge thanks to @akprecordings for the support !!!! Daydream Observatory is out in full May 15 :)

“Stone Eater”
•Direction, Cinematography, Edit, and Color by @gushes___
•Typeface by @bedfullofdirt
shot on location at
Otion Front Studios, Brooklyn, NY
Mullaghmore, Burren National Park, Ireland and
Giants Causeway, Northern Ireland

“Sword of the Sun (feat. Chris Ryan Williams)”
•Video by Matt Evans
•Additional thanks to the “Enya” font I found online by @gushes___

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HAPPY MATT DAY🌀🗺️😎🐌❤️‍🔥🥯🐠🫠🐬🦜🖼️🛫🪼🐚be stoked my ecstatic heart, im soooo luuuuucky to spend life in step, in flight, onstage, audienting, & in sweetest dreams with love in bright colors alongside you🥹 your boundless expression is like the sun itself~~lighting / gassing up those who get to play along with you in music & frondship & every interdiscip jam in btwn❤️‍🔥 so grateful you were born, my beautiful dude @matt_evans_online by @gushes___

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Come celebrate our album release 𝑩𝒊𝒈 𝑪𝒓𝒚𝒔𝒕𝒂𝒍 𝑫𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒎𝒔 w. @musclememorymusic & @gushes___ at @union_pool ✨April 3 ✨❗️💗❗️

flyer @c_c_mulligan taken in Union Pool by @gushes___

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